Scheduling

• The 100‑Microsecond Rule: Why Tail Latency Eats Your Throughput (and How to Fight Back) · 2025-10-04

  A field guide to taming P99 in modern systems—from queueing math to NIC interrupts, from hedged requests to adaptive concurrency. Practical patterns, pitfalls, and a blueprint you can apply this week.

• Scheduling: Trading Latency for Throughput (and Back Again) · 2025-02-12

  Queue disciplines, work stealing, and CPU affinity: how scheduler choices shape p50/p99, and when to bias for one over the other.

• When Data Centers Learned to Sleep: Energy-Aware Scheduling in Practice · 2019-07-19

  An engineer’s chronicle of how hyperscale fleets embraced energy-aware scheduling without sacrificing latency or trust.